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I was personally pretty disappointed, though spoiling myself ahead of the game took some of that away. I enjoyed playing through the game, but for a game that's all about the story it's not that great imo.

I liked basically every cutscene between Joel and Ellie in the game, they're few, but they're all extremely good.

I don't think the game did a great job at making me enjoy the characters. Most of the side characters have little to no development, though I did like Lev. Ellie is a mess at this point and they spend so much energy making Abby seem like a fantastic person and making you feel sorry for her that she ends up really dull and almost out of character. All the hatred she has when killing Joel and when fighting Ellie in the theater seems like something that we'd feel more often like we do with Ellie, but the rest of the time she's a genuinely good person just trying to do the best. I'm not sure how well I'm wording this but there's some disconnect there.

The story never really had me hooked. I never felt great need to take revenge, it was obvious all along that Abby had a really darn good reason to brutally murder someone who just saved her life. Then during all of Abby's part you knew almost all of what would happen. The aquarium return was fine, but not fantastic imo and not worth the cost of splitting their arcs up entirely. I disliked the ending quite a bit. JJ looked big enough for a lot of time to have passed. Did she have to know she could have killed Abby to let go of it all? I'm not entirely sure, but it sure was all unsatisfying and stupid. Once again I was doing something with Ellie that I really felt was a terrible decision. Tommy also felt off in the end. He was the one arguing in the theater to be satisfied with what they'd done and have Abby live. Don't know why he needed a miserable ending like that. Also, as much as I liked the Joel scenes, they were probably a bit less imptactful to me being all in the past because we already knew where they ended up. Overall, I think it was a disappointing story they wanted to tell and on top of that the narrative and pacind has obvious flaws.

The gameplay was mostly great, this definitely carried the game for me. That and the presentation, because they sure are great at presenting what they want to present, so it's a shame I didn't enjoy the content more. The only downsides to gameplay to me are first of all melee combat, which feels straight out of 2010 or earlier (animations are better, but jeez, it's ass) and then a lot of things resetting once you play as Abby. They made a good attempt at making her feel different enough, but you still had to get a good bit of the same things or very similar ones instead. Another reason I felt like the split wasn't worth it.

Overall, it's probably 6 out of 10 for me, so slightly above average.

Some minor things that didn't effect my own enjoyment, but is a problem at last. That trailer showing a scene between Ellie and Joel which never happens because it's actually Jesse there is complete BS and such things always will be. I didn't mind the transgender representation personally, but knowing a large bit of the community did is worry some, unfortunately. And on a more unserious note, I really miss the sound when finding alcohol in the first game, and I was enjoying finding coins of all the states, so why not have them all, dammit.

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